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...Prosper M??nière decided that such symptoms collectively represented a definite disease of the inner ear caused by infection or degeneration. The French physician could do nothing to cure the disease which, upon his death the following year, his colleagues called M??nière's Disease. Nor could his successors do much until the perfection of brain surgery 20 years ago. Brain surgeons stopped the symptoms simply by cutting the acoustic nerve and disconnecting the diseased ear from the brain. Such an operation, however, resulted unavoidably in total deafness. For this reason most surgeons were reluctant to perform...
...Nazis converged on Nuremberg, more than doubling the old city's population, some chanted a snatch of Ger man doggerel to the effect that "Since Father joined the Party and Mother joined the Franenschajt [Nazi women's league] and Sister joined the M??delbund [Nazi Maidens] and Brother joined the Storm Troops, we are met once a year at the Party Congress...
...Crass Infraction." Reichsbischof Ludwig M??ller, the blatant German Army chaplain promoted by Adolf Hitler to the post of virtual dictator of German Protestantism (TIME, Oct. 9), denounced foreign Protestant pastors for criticizing his autocratic policies last week, flayed them for "seeing with the eyes of a poorly or falsely informed foreign world." Next day, in a suit to test Reichsbischof M??ller's January decree on which he based his Protestant dictatorship, the Berlin High Court declared: "The decree undoubtedly is invalid, and thus everything is null and void that the Reichsbischof has done on the strength...
Morally this was indeed a blow to Dr. M??ller, but the Reichsbischof, knowing perfectly well that his acts have been illegal for months, recently had them retroactively confirmed by an act of his hand-picked Church Synod which has yet to be tested in the courts...
...Sunday came a desperate outburst of pastors opposed to the spiritual dictatorship of Dr. M??ller. Their Council of Brothers, organized after he squashed their Pastors' Emergency League, circulated secretly a bold manifesto which such stalwarts as fashionable Berlin Pastor Dr. Martin Niemöller read out from their pulpits to packed congregations. Denouncing the Reichsbischof's hand-picked Synod as "an assemblage organized in open violation of the Church constitution," the Council of Brothers manifestoed: "In all responsibility before God, we, therefore, declare to churches and their members: Obedience to this church regime means disobedience...